Succulent Centerpiece

Hello everyone! My name is Jane and I’m glad to be guest posting today at Live Creatively Inspired.

My husband and I have a blog called Cottage at the Crossroads where we post about our everyday life around the old house that my husband grew up in. We also have a large vegetable garden and we grow and preserve a lot of our own food.

In addition to vegetable gardening, we grow a lot of plants and flowers so I thought I’d show you my refreshed succulent centerpiece that I redid a few days ago.

I originally made this centerpiece back in January of this year.

Here it is on the table on our front porch and it has looked great for about 6 months.

You can see from this picture that the succulents that I planted last January were rather small at the time.

If you would like to see the directions on how I constructed the centerpiece, you can find them HERE.

Well, after 6 months the succulents had really grown and some of them were getting “leggy” so it was time to freshen up this baby!

So I pulled out the glass candle holder and replaced the leggy succulents with some others that I had growing. (Sorry, I didn’t get a picture of that step!) I added a little fresh soil in spots and then placed these pebbles over the soil. Who really wants to see dirt if this centerpiece is used on a table with food?!!

Then I decided, “Hey, why not add some pebbles inside the candle holder!” And you can see that I did, and I think it helps to connect the pebbles in the base with the glass candle holder.